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News Headlines from Owen Sound, ON

• Top plowmen give Kent Co. soil first-class treatment

  It may be an understatement to say David Mundle is enjoying his home field advantage this week.

• Ontario man to stand trial in 1983 murder

  A 42-year-old Owen Sound man has been ordered to stand trial in the murder of a Petrolia woman nearly 28 years ago.

• Canadian man buys Fogcutter building

  Port Huron's tallest building is getting a new owner. The Port Huron Office Center, a six-story building at 511 Fort St., was auctioned off on Friday.

• Plan to ship radioactive generators on Great Lakes faces backlash

  Bruce Power, the country's only private nuclear station operator. Photograph by: Screen grab, Handout A global outcry is growing over a proposal to ship 16 aging radioactive steam generators across Ontario's Great Lakes, a plan critics say risks turning the iconic waterways into a permanent corridor for the transportation of nuclear waste.

• OPP bust pot grow-op

  As a result of a joint investigation involving drug enforcement officers from the Ontario Provincial Police and Owen Sound Police Service a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act Search Warrant was obtained and executed on August 18 in the Municipality of Meaford.

• Ontario Red Alert

  ONTARIO RED ALERT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ONTARIO ************************* TORONTO - - The Province of Ontario has issued a Red Alert for a tornado warning for the areas of Hanover - Dundalk - Southern Grey County and Owen Sound - Blue Mountains - Northern Grey County.

• PMO Softens stance on Afghanistan

  Canada won't cut and run, Prime Minister Stephen Harper boldly declared in 2006 when his government was new to power and brimming with enthusiasm for the Afghan mis- sion.

• Afghan mission will end as scheduled, MacKay says

  Peter MacKay says the government is considering training police officers, government officials, prison guards and public servants as Canada's contribution to Afghanistan post-2011. But it is not changing its position about extending the military mission in Afghanistan.

• Support wanes as MacKay hints troops could stay in Afghanistan

  The Angus Reid Public Opinion poll also shows that a majority of Canadians 53 per cent do not support the war and 43 per cent believe that Canada made a mistake sending in troops.